Short Stories - Literary Devises Title:Identities

Point of View:
Third Person

Protagonist:
A man

What type of character is the Protagonist?
A man who judges people by how they looks.

Antagonist:
Himself


Describe the setting
Somewhere in the city, where there are schools, and houses, but it sounds like a pretty poor place.
Type of Conflict:
man v.s himself
Describe the main conflict:
The main conflict is the character v.s himself; his own thinking.


Describe the Climax of the Story:
The climax of the story is near the end, when the police officers show up, and pull out the gun, that's when i got no clue what will happen next.


How does the Protagonist change over the course of the story?
He didn't change much at all, he always judge people by how they look, and at the end the police judged him by how he looks.




Describe the relationship between the title and the theme.
Well the whole story is about finding out who the man really is, and identities means knowing who you are. I mean like don't judge people by how they look, that's not their true identities.






How does the main conflict help to illustrate the theme?
The main confilct is about finding out the the true main character and not judging others by how they look, and that's pretty much what the tittle means, and what the whole theme is about.




How does the climax help to illustrate the theme?
The climax is at the end where the cops show up, and they judged the man by how he looks, and shot him. And judging people by how they look is what the whole story is about.

Give examples of each of the following literary terms in the story (use quotes):

Simile:
"Paper clogs the fence like drifted snow."
"Darkness has quietly been settliing like soot."

Metaphor:
"Their leather jackets gleam with studs. Eagles, tigers, wolves and serpents ride their backs."

Personification:
"But time has run away with him"



Symbol:
"Street lights come on, he takes them as a signal to return the way he came."

Foreshadowing (give both elements):
'he dangerously ignores the present and does not notice the police car, concealed in the shawdows of a side street, nose out and follow him."





Irony:
"he decides to call the next time he sees a store or phone booth."



Imagery:
" gangs of young men follow the car with unblinking eyes"


Describe the relationships between the class theme and the story.

Complete 4/5
Effort 3.5/5
Content 3/5
Paragraph 0/5

total 10.5/20